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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Ehcache vs. Stardog

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.4d.comdruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.ehcache.orgwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.stardog.com
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGStardog-Union
Initial release19842012201320092010
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 2024155853.10.0, March 20227.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL for queryingSQL-like query languagenoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoAccess rights for users and roles

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